#163 - IGNW CTOs Phil Taylor and John Wynkoop
Today we are talking to John Wynkoop and Phil Taylor of IGNW. And we discuss ways to put servant leadership into practice, the exciting future of truly distributed computing models, and why the cloud is a pattern, not a place.
All of this, right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!
John: Serving as IGNW’s Regional CTO for the Southeast United States, John is responsible for helping customers build and execute strategies to speed time to market through adoption of hybrid cloud and cloud native technologies. He is especially passionate about building scalable distributed systems and leading customers in digital transformation, infrastructure automation, and application modernization through adoption of SRE practices.
Over the 20 years John spent in IT prior to joining IGNW, he was instrumental in the development of some of the largest distributed systems in the world including multiple Top 500 supercomputers, several top grossing mobile games, and mission critical real time systems for the US Navy.
Phil: Phil Taylor is an entrepreneur, veteran software engineer, and technology leader. He is currently Chief Technology Officer at IGNW where he oversees professional services organization focused on Next Generation Software Engineering, Cloud, DevOps and Advance Infrastructure (private cloud).
He is passionate about helping customers create digital transformation strategies that drive better ROI and reduce time to market (TTM) on infrastructure and/or software delivery.
Phil is a software developer by trade with over 20 years of experience building software in Financial, HealthCare, Retail and Manufacturing verticals.
Before joining IGNW he was Co-Founder & CTO at Brightwork.io (TechStars Chicago 2016), a server-less platform for developers similar to GCP Cloud Functions or AWS Lambda.
ABOUT IGNW:
At IGNW, we use our deep technical insights, local market knowledge and rock-solid relationships and reputation to create exceptional business outcomes for people and companies every day. We are locally based, with global partnerships to deliver the industry's top technical solutions and talent to every one of our clients. Our clients, contractors, partners and employees choose IGNW because we tackle the tough problems, and we care about people while we do it.
Our clients range from large global businesses to medium sized firms who use technology as a competitive advantage and are seeking the best people and processes to execute on their vision. The reason we win is that our people are relentlessly committed to our client's vision and business success. The reason that our people are so relentless is because we are equally fanatical about their talent, their success and their well being.